"Illustrated History of Lane County, Oregon." Portland, Oregon: A. G. Walling,
publisher, 1884.  pg. 482.
 
ANDREW J. KEENEY
     Was born in La Fayette county, Missouri, October 7, 1821, but when an
infant was taken to Ray county, in the same state, by his parents.  At the age
of twenty-one years he moved to the southern part of Missouri, and a
twelve-month after proceeded to Holt county, purchased a farm and engaged in
agricultural pursuits.  In 1850, he crossed the plains to California, but
eighteen months thereafter returned to Missouri taking up residence there until
May, 1857.  At this time, with his wife and four children, he once more essayed
the journey across the plains, but on this occasion to Oregon, where he arrived
October 5, 1857.  Having made the trip by way of California he there disposed of
his teams, took passage by sea to Portland, where he remained but a short time,
and then came direct to Lane county, purchased a farm comprising six hundred and
forty acres, the Milton Riggs donation claim, to which he has since added two
hundred and two acres, making his estate a compact tract of eight hundred and
forty-two acres.  Mr. Keeney's residence, a good view of which will be found in
this volume, is situated about half a mile east from Goshen on the Central
Military road, where he is engaged in general farming and stock-raising.
Married in the first instance in Clinton, Henry county, Missouri, Miss Elizabeth
Mulholland, by which union they had one child now deceased.  He espoused,
secondly, Mr. Cooper, in Atchison county, Missouri, and had four children, three
of whom survive, viz:  James M., William D., and John B.  Thirdly he took unto
himself as wife Mrs. A. J. Mathews, and has four children, viz:  Martha E.,
Benjamin F., Andrew A., and Thomas P.
 
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